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WASHINGTON (AP) The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas.

The funding announced Monday by the Commerce Department is part of a total investment in the cluster that, with private money, is expected to exceed $40 billion. The government support comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022 with the goal of reviving the production of advanced computer chips domestically.

"The proposed project will propel Texas into a state of the art semiconductor ecosystem," Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on a call with reporters. "It puts us on track to hit our goal of producing 20% of the world's leading edge chips in the United States by the end of the decade."

Raimondo said she expects the project will create at least 17,000 construction jobs and more than 4,500 manufacturing jobs.

Samsung's cluster in Taylor, Texas, would include two factories that would make four- and two-nanometer chips. Also, there would be a factory dedicated to research and development, as well as a facility for the packaging that surrounds chip components.

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Holy crap. This is a huge win for the area. Not only are you going to have a place where chips will be built, which is what the current building was going to do, but now add the other nanometer chips, R&D as well as the packaging? Packaging used to be shipped overseas to complete. Now it's staying here in the USA. Hutto is already busting at the seams. Now add this? Taylor and Hutto are going to wind up on top of each other.

https://apnews.com/article/samsung-chips-computer-semiconductor-2a34bde47a857ae07fc83142c3cc8390

Seems good for both Texas and the US. Wonder how it slipped through Biden's scrutiny…

Talked to a rancher the other day bemoaning the price of land jumping in Milam County because of everything going on in Taylor. He said newcomers think things are expensive in the Austin area so they move out there and snap everything up.

That used to be a great area to farm.

Used to be

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I've been watching that place and Tesla get built for the past two years since it's on the route I take from San Antonio when I drive to our warehouse in Franklin. I thought the Tesla factory was impressive until they started putting in Samsung. That thing is insane.

Burdizzo said:

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That used to be a great area to farm.

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Growing up in NW Austin, we have (had actually) lots of family in the Taylor / Granger area. My mom's cousin was a lifelong teacher/counselor at Taylor HS, and is known as Mama Duck. Her husband, a Rice grad and football player, was a cotton farmer for decades until Walmart wanted to build a store on some of their land and paid them a hefty price, so they retired and enjoyed life.

Can't believe the development and growth from Hutto to Taylor, they were such tiny farm towns growing up.

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The Taylor rodeo ain't gonna be the same in a few years.

So where would a guy wanting to build custom homes which will result from this growth set up shop? Asking for a friend…..

Troglodyte said:

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The Taylor rodeo ain't gonna be the same in a few years.

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Ain't that the truth?

The first thing that needs to happen is that TXDOT needs to build a loop around both Taylor and Hutto from 130 to alleviate traffic from US79. What a dang beatdown that road in the mornings and afternoons.

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So where would a guy wanting to build custom homes which will result from this growth set up shop? Asking for a friend…..

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When I lived in Austin a year ago, I'd say N Hutto. That's where all the development is going and heading east.

Burdizzo said:

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Welcome to Texas. We lost our water in 84. Now it grows houses….

I'm surprised Biden allowed this given the environmental concerns. They are going to pump a massive amount of water out of the ground as part of the processing.

That whole area is about to change sociopolitically forever.

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Burdizzo said:

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That used to be a great area to farm.

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Growing up in NW Austin, we have (had actually) lots of family in the Taylor / Granger area. My mom's cousin was a lifelong teacher/counselor at Taylor HS, and is known as Mama Duck. Her husband, a Rice grad and football player, was a cotton farmer for decades until Walmart wanted to build a store on some of their land and paid them a hefty price, so they retired and enjoyed life.

Can't believe the development and growth from Hutto to Taylor, they were such tiny farm towns growing up.

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No more Czech polkas on Saturday morning radio?
No more treks to the SP hall out in the middle of a field to hear the Debonaires?

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Muy said:

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Burdizzo said:

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That used to be a great area to farm.

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Growing up in NW Austin, we have (had actually) lots of family in the Taylor / Granger area. My mom's cousin was a lifelong teacher/counselor at Taylor HS, and is known as Mama Duck. Her husband, a Rice grad and football player, was a cotton farmer for decades until Walmart wanted to build a store on some of their land and paid them a hefty price, so they retired and enjoyed life.

Can't believe the development and growth from Hutto to Taylor, they were such tiny farm towns growing up.

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No more Czech polkas on Saturday morning radio?
No more treks to the SP hall out in the middle of a field to hear the Debonaires?

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My mom's side is full on Czech and I never understood why people call pigs in a blanket as Kolaches.

They're paving over some of the most productive black land farming area in the state. Thousands of acres of it. Oh well, market forces and all.

It's a gigantic headache for me because I am partly responsible for the data infrastructure in that area and it's in the middle of nowhere in regards to that infrastructure.

Also, the TxDOT plans for that area IN NO WAY can handle the kind of traffic developing, and the soil there is highly unstable, so building roads requires a lot of bed preparation.

So is my dad's side....I blame Shipley's Donuts

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So is my dad's side....I blame Shipley's Donuts

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I also blame the mom and pop Chinese donut shops, and their customers.

Drove past the site the other day. A huge facility is already being built - the first of 10. The infrastructure will need massive upgrades to handle that many people for sure.

Burdizzo said:

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replacing a handful of farms with factories providing thousands of manufacturing jobs is a net win for the state

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Burdizzo said:

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replacing a handful of farms with factories providing thousands of manufacturing jobs is a net win for the state

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Burdizzo said:

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Burdizzo said:

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replacing a handful of farms with factories providing thousands of manufacturing jobs is a net win for the state

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Have you ever even tasted their chips?

Gross ass things.

Reno Hightower said:

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That whole area is about to change sociopolitically forever.

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I grew up here and it saddens me to see these changes. I have friends whose parent still farm all around this area. I know the people who own the land along 79 too still being farmed by an 80 year old. Going to he a huge payday for them one day.

My wife is from Thorndale on the Milam/Williamson County line. Real estate prices in Thrall and Thorndale are going crazy too. Those little school districts are already getting stretched. I was a pastor in Thorndale from 1996-2009 and still have family there. The area has already seen drastic population growth in the 15 years since I have moved away. I can't imagine what the next 15 years are going to be like!

BrownDeerAggie said:

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My wife is from Thorndale on the Milam/Williamson County line. Real estate prices in Thrall and Thorndale are going crazy too. Those little school districts are already getting stretched. I was a pastor in Thorndale from 1996-2009 and still have family there. The area has already seen drastic population growth in the 15 years since I have moved away. I can't imagine what the next 15 years are going to be like!

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I know younger couples (in their 20's) who are going out that way looking for places to live. They are tired of paying out the wazoo for renting in Travis county. I was shocked to hear this from their parents. Thrall did jump in classification for the first time in decades. It's coming to Thorndale & Rockdale too.

We have land a bit east and with all of the large companies moving into the area the price of the land has skyrocketed. We bought at a very good time

Great, I like increased property values and an automatic 10% increase in taxes every year.

Reno Hightower said:

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Yep. Plenty of clueless tech nerds will be infesting central Texas.

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Its kinda funny, there is currently land surrounding Samsung still be farmed that is worth over a $100k per acre.

The problem with prior government incentives to build these plants is that they came with all sorts of requirements for DEI in the construction and procurement process. There have to be a certain number of female construction workers, minority-owned suppliers, daycare options, etc. These requirements have really slowed down other construction in places like Arizona. Building a chip plant is nothing like building a car plant. The technology is very complex and the engineering work is incredibly tedious.

There was also huge pushback against TSMC when they brought in a bunch of Taiwanese people to help with the engineering stuff. You know, the people who know what they're actually doing.

Old McDonald said:

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Burdizzo said:

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replacing a handful of farms with factories providing thousands of manufacturing jobs is a net win for the state

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The old bull**** line about progress.

You people are wrong every single time.

Old McDonald said:

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Burdizzo said:

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replacing a handful of farms with factories providing thousands of manufacturing jobs is a net win for the state

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Old McDonald wrote some code
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And on this code he had some scripts
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Chip plant here, and Tesla there,
Here a nerd, there a nerd, everywhere a huge nerd.
Now McDonald has no farm.
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